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Rewan Tremethick
@rewantremethick.bsky.social
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Exploring the stories we tell each other and ourselves. Creating a few of my own as well. He/him.
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I'd like to see magazines return to prominence as a go-to source of 'content'.

And maybe as the internet gets more and more crowded with content, that's exactly what'll happen.

open.spotify.com/episode/592b...
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This is the best ad ever.

Doctor is speaking question, yet says no question.

Egg is vegetable.

Should doctor attempt to plummet own blood sugar, or is it uncertain if throw out egg will plummet blood sugar in general?

Most compelling, such click.
A sponsored ad in an article, featuring a picture of a person holding a cracked egg, and a bowl with several other egg yolks and whites already in it. The text reads: Doctor: ?Throw Out This Vegetable Now To Plummet Your Blood Sugar?
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A lil snippet from my podcast episode: I Miss Magazines.

One of the strengths of magazines is their focused, finite nature means they don't have to try the 'spray-and-pray' approach of online content creation.

open.spotify.com/episode/592b...
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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It’s really important to take to heart the very prescriptive and generic advice imparted by forum users who may or may not have actually written anything themselves.

#RewansWritingTips #Writing
Me looking curiously at a leather journal, as though I’ve just read something surprising.
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Can books not be challenging? Language shouldn’t have to go easy on you.

open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq...

#Reading #Writing
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#Autism and #ADHD means I often think up some truly kick-ass systems, routines, and ideas to make my life easier…then promptly forget them.

So at the start of the year I created a ‘Manual of Me’ to help keep me on track.

open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...
A statue of a woman reading a scroll. The headline over the top of the image reads: Why I created a manual of me. A subheading reads: Thrive in a neurotypical world by rewriting the rule book.
August 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Magazines! Do you still read them? I feel like they may be a good alternative to today's content soup, rather than an outdated format.

What do you think?

open.spotify.com/episode/592b...
August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Once you finish your book, you have to actually tell people what it’s about.

It’s therefore imperative that you never finish your book.

#RewansWritingTips #Writing
Me looking well thoughtful as I ponder something, my hand, holding a quill, resting on my chin. Thoughtfully.
August 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Treating people like they’re stupid is the best way to make them stupid.
100,000 words in an average novel, and none of them is supposed to challenge you?

open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq...

#Reading #Writing
August 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Any other #ActuallyAutistic and #ADHD folks find measuring productivity difficult?

I struggle with this in work - I’m constantly wondering if I’ve ’done enough’ - so I found a way to visualise it using dice. Here’s how it works: open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...
A stone statue writing in a book. The headline is: This system will change how you see productivity (literally). The subheading is: NGL though, this way of tracking a visualising your output is a little…dicey
August 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Brains, amirite?
A simple cartoon of a brain, with legs (and wearing Cuban heels), stroking its ‘chin’ thoughtfully while the other hand scratches the top of its ‘head’, it’s one large, visible eye looking upward. I realise now that this sounds nightmarish - it’s cute.
August 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Lovely insight from Tim Minchin here on what actually constitutes art. This is from his collected speeches, You Don’t Have To Have A Dream. A super quick but very thought-provoking read.

#Booksky💙📚 #Reading
Page 97 of Tim Minchin’s book You Don’t Have To Have A Dream: “Art is any expression of an idea into which you've put a bit of fucking effort. It is often the fast-thinking, bias-riddled, adrenalised, dehumanising part of our brain that tweets. It is the slow-thinking, contemplative, creative, self-aware, humanising part of our brain that makes art. So if I were to use the publication of this book as an opportunity to add a bonus Life Lesson, it might be this: A valuable idea is usually one that has been carefully considered. Our feelings are not virtuous purely by virtue of how keenly we feel them. Take time to hone your opinions, then take pride in how you express them. That's why we create stories and songs and plays and films and paintings. That's why we hone a craft and learn how to confront and cajole and seduce. That's why we work so hard to make them laugh and think and cry. That's what the art is for.”
August 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Beautiful and eerie. We stopped by the local wishing well today. Didn’t have a strip of cloth to hang on the tree though. These are all people’s hopes for healing and memories of those already gone.
Dozens of coloured and patterned strips of fabric tied to a mossy tree branch in a woods. Dozens of coloured and patterned strips of fabric tied to a mossy tree branch in a woods.
August 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I hate these wall-mounted kitchen knife holders. The last thing I want to present an intruder with is a selection of potential murder weapons.

📷 Photo by Nathan Dumlao via Unsplash.
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The classic Spider-Man pointing at another Spider-Man still.
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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'Oh, it's the Autism' isn't just the name of my newsletter, it's something of a mantra.

Because what could be more neurodivergent than sometimes forgetting you are?

open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...
A closeup photo of a shocked stone statue. Over the top are the words: My neurodivergence still surprises me An honest reflection of where I am with my neurodiversity right now. rewantremethick.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Being sick as a kid: Watch films and cartoons all day on the sofa.

Being sick as an adult: Pretty sure I’ve coughed up an organ, but I’ve got work in 45 minutes.
It’s me - a man, with long curly brown/black/grey hair and a brown/black/grey and for some reason ginger beard - laying under a stripy duvet looking haggard.
August 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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“Keep it short and simple” always annoys me. We’re limiting our ability to express ourselves due to the fear of challenging our readers.

open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq...

#Reading #Writing
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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No one has an attention span for books anymore.

If you can, act out your book on social media instead.

#RewansWritingTips #Writing
Me looking well thoughtful.
July 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Any name sounds fantastical when you spell it wrong:

Gary = Gharrae
Karen = Charehn
Simon = Symun

Bonus worldbuilding points if you throw an apostrophe in the middle.

#RewansWritingTips #Writing
Me looking curiously at a leather journal, like I’ve just read something really surprising.
July 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Lucky zebra crossing
A sign on a lamppost that reads ‘humped zebra crossing’.
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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People sometimes change very suddenly.

Did they discover a 'hack' or a 'secret'?

Or was something else at work?

The real secret to self-improvement isn't a quick fix: open.spotify.com/episode/7qPx...
July 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Admit it, it does happen. Sometimes…

#WritingCommunity
Me (male, brown/black curly hair, short brown-grey-ginger beard, wearing a blue shirt and a grey waistcoat, looking surprised at a leather-bound notebook. The caption reads: When you read back something you wrote and it’s not terrible.
July 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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THREAD:

I gave up on reading challenges in 2024 because I was beginning to understand that reading consistently wasn't working for me.

It was time to 'let myself off the leash' and find out what my AuDHD brain needed and how it worked.

#Reading #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD

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A golden pocket watch hanging on a chain in front of a black background. There are phantom images of the watch arrange in a curve on either side, to represent the fact it is swinging from side to side.
July 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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How to take a good author photo:

Pose like your arm is glued to a bookcase, but you haven’t noticed because you’re wondering why there’s a pelican on the top shelf.

#RewansWritingTips #Writing
Me next to a bookcase, one arm resting on a shelf, looking thoughtfully up at the sky.
July 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM